Repurposed glass Humming bird feeder

Pcr22415361
by Pcr22415361
I am in the process of collecting beautiful whiskey/wine decanters to make hummingbird feeders. I purchased the feeder stopper/tube attachment but found the mouths of the bottles to be of various sizes and the feeder stopper/ tube does not fit. Too small!
Is there a way to salvage the feeder tubes to enlarge and fit the bottles? Will appreciate any solutions, thanks.
  3 answers
  • Janey B. Janey B. on Apr 21, 2017

    These sound beautiful. You may be able to find other sized stoppers online or in your hardware store. Or maybe you can use corks and drill out the holes for the tubing. I know you can get varying sizes of corks at craft stores.

  • Marilynne Marilynne on Apr 21, 2017

    Don't know if it's possible to drill thru cork, but if it is, and you can drill a hole that the tube will fit thru in the right size cork for your bottle, may be a solution? Not really the crafty type, but this idea just kinda jumped into my head...I may be way off base, but it's a thought

    • Pcr22415361 Pcr22415361 on Apr 21, 2017

      thank you Marilynne for your suggestion. I too thought of this solution and it may be the only one that will work. Assume I would need to glue the tube into the cork so it would not pull out of the cork when refilling the bottle. Do appreciate your comments - thanks

  • Maggie E Hopkins Maggie E Hopkins on May 28, 2017

    I would check to see if your decanters are lead crystal if they are harmful to the hummingbirds like they are to humans before doing this. The lead in lead crystal leeches into the whiskey or wine that is kept in them and is not go for us, which is why they have fallen out of favor as something to store your booze in.

    • Pcr22415361 Pcr22415361 on May 28, 2017

      Good point Maggie, I will ck out the ones I currently have and be very aware in the future. By the way, I have been able to solve my problem. I am able to carefully remove the inner glass tube from the black rubber stopper and insert into the new cork.